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Photoacoustic tomography (PAT) is a medical imaging modality that can provide high-resolution tissue images based on the optical absorption. Classical reconstruction methods for quantifying the absorption coefficients rely on sufficient…

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Some recent methods for lossy signal and image compression store only a few selected pixels and fill in the missing structures by inpainting with a partial differential equation (PDE). Suitable operators include the Laplacian, the…

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In this paper we consider the reconstruction problem of photoacoustic tomography (PAT) with a flat observation surface. We develop a direct reconstruction method that employs regularization with wavelet sparsity constraints. To that end, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-27 Jürgen Frikel , Markus Haltmeier

The literature on reconstruction formulas for photoacoustic tomography (PAT) is vast. The various reconstruction formulas differ by used measurement devices and geometry on which the data are sampled. In standard photoacoustic imaging…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-30 Peter Elbau , Otmar Scherzer , Rainer Schulze

Applying standard algorithms to sparse data problems in photoacoustic tomography (PAT) yields low-quality images containing severe under-sampling artifacts. To some extent, these artifacts can be reduced by iterative image reconstruction…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Stephan Antholzer , Johannes Schwab , Robert Nuster , Markus Haltmeier

Photoacoustic tomography (PAT) is a nonionizing imaging modality capable of acquiring high contrast and resolution images of optical absorption at depths greater than traditional optical imaging techniques. Practical considerations with…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-30 Steven Guan , Amir A. Khan , Siddhartha Sikdar , Parag V. Chitnis

The method of superposition is proposed in combination with a sparse $\ell_1$ optimisation algorithm with the aim of finding a sparse basis to accurately reconstruct the structural vibrations of a radiating object from a set of acoustic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 Nadia M. Abusag , David J. Chappell

Quantitative photoacoustic tomography (QPAT) is a recent hybrid imaging modality that couples optical tomography with ultrasound imaging to achieve high resolution imaging of optical properties of scattering media. Image reconstruction in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-09-02 Tian Ding , Kui Ren , Sarah Vallelian

Dynamic Photoacoustic Computed Tomography (PACT) is an important imaging technique for monitoring physiological processes, capable of providing high-contrast images of optical absorption at much greater depths than traditional optical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-05 Youshen Xiao , Yiling Shi , Ruixi Sun , Hongjiang Wei , Fei Gao , Yuyao Zhang

Photoacoustic tomography (PAT) enables non-invasive cross-sectional imaging of biological tissues, but it fails to map the spatial variation of speed-of-sound (SOS) within tissues. While SOS is intimately linked to density and elastic…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-08-27 Yang Wang , Danni Wang , Liting Zhong , Yi Zhou , Qing Wang , Wufan Chen , Li Qi

It has previously been demonstrated that model-based reconstruction methods relying on a priori knowledge of the imaging point spread function (PSF) coupled to sparsity priors on the object to image can provide super-resolution in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-02 Sergey Vilov , Bastien Arnal , Eliel Hojman , Yonina C. Eldar , Ori Katz , Emmanuel Bossy

Photoacoustic tomography (PAT) is a rapidly-evolving medical imaging modality that combines optical absorption contrast with ultrasound imaging depth. One challenge in PAT is image reconstruction with inadequate acoustic signals due to…

Photoacoustic (PA) imaging is a biomedical imaging modality capable of acquiring high-contrast images of optical absorption at depths much greater than traditional optical imaging techniques. However, practical instrumentation and geometry…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Mengjie Guo , Hengrong Lan , Changchun Yang , Fei Gao

In this article, we study several reconstruction methods for the inverse source problem of photoacoustic tomography (PAT) with spatially variable sound speed and damping. The backbone of these methods is the adjoint operators, which we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-08-21 Linh V. Nguyen , Markus Haltmeier

Photoacoustic tomography is a hybrid imaging technique that combines high optical tissue contrast with high ultrasound resolution. Direct reconstruction methods such as filtered backprojection, time reversal and least squares suffer from…

Performing a large number of spatial measurements enables high-resolution photoacoustic imaging without specific prior information. However, the acquisition of spatial measurements is time-consuming, costly, and technically challenging. By…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-12 Gerhard Zangerl , Markus Haltmeier

An efficient computational approach for optimal reconstruction of binary-type images suitable for models in various applications including biomedical imaging is developed and validated. The methodology includes derivative-free optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-27 Paul R. Arbic , Vladislav Bukshtynov

We consider the problem of finding a sparse solution for an underdetermined linear system of equations when the known parameters on both sides of the system are subject to perturbation. This problem is particularly relevant to…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-06-16 Reza Arablouei

A framework for reconstruction of optical diffusion and absorption coefficients in quantitative photoacoustic tomography is presented. This framework is based on a Tikhonov-type functional with a regularization term promoting sparsity of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-01 Anwesa Dey , Alfio Borzi , Souvik Roy

In photoacoustic tomography (PAT), the computation of the initial pressure distribution within an object from its time-dependent boundary measurements over time is considered. This problem can be approached from two well-established points…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-04 Jaakko Kultima , Ronny Ramlau , Teemu Sahlström , Tanja Tarvainen